"Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us."
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"These stars of earth, these golden flowers."
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"The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not."
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"The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth."
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"Even while the Earth sleeps we travel."
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"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?"
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"The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze."
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"Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life."
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"Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
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"But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity."
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"I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better"
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"The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction."
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"Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth."
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"When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it."
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"Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing."
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"A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless."
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"There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth."
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"A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_."
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"I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?"
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"If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth."
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